Tag: Life

Enter exhibit A. A for Adam - Man. The story is always the same for me with very few variations. My relationships are like those adventure books with a choose your own ending - except the ending is always the same. Dating for me are chronicles of choose your own beginning books except they come… Continue reading Modern UnLove

The goal has never been marriage or babies. People get married everyday. People have babies every day - and have been since the beginning of time. In the beginning there was a marriage, they had sex, and then had a baby. Tale as old as time so to speak. People also get divorced everyday. People… Continue reading What I Know

The pulses silenced out the imbetween I only heard the highs Your absence is deafening, I fucking meant it every time Did I follow the steps all right? Were you only painted by numbers? Was I out of line when I told you how it hurt? Am I dead? Or did I dream it all?… Continue reading Glitch

I moved to Brooklyn Heights when I was 17. I was enrolled for the summer introduction course for the New York Conservatory for the Dramatic Arts until I started classes in the fall. This was the plan since I was ten years old. Showing up, suitcase in hand and a dream in my heart. The… Continue reading Anomaly

A little background. A local community theater group, (Olean Theatre Workshop), recently did an almost all female production of Arthur Miller's, The Crucible. In The Crucible, for those who may not be familiar, is a character named Tituba who is a black slave and calls for black actress to play the role. Olean Theatre Workshop casted… Continue reading Whitesplained

Growing up I always saw myself as a mother. Motherhood I felt, was an inevitable obligation and was just something that happened. At one point in my teen years I distinctly remember wanting at least 8 children. That number drastically dropped as years went on. I'm really good with small children. I started babysitting at… Continue reading Mother, May I?

I'm launching a business with a friend next month and it's very surreal. What started out as an amusing thought has manifested into a reality over a course of a year. I feel as if I should be more terrified than I am, but I'm not afraid. This just fits. I have an incredibly talented… Continue reading Risk.